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G. A= LYTLEL WHEEL. FILED MAR. 14. 192i.

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WHEEL. I FILED MAR. I4, I92!- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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Application filed March 14, 1921. Serial No. 452,145.

'1 0 a]? 'vw/lio m it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon A, LY'lLE, a citizen oil the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county. of Sacramento and State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has reference to improvements in vehicle wheels.

lily object is the production of a strong and efficient wheel in which spring spokes are employed, whereby the wheel. will have substantially all of the resiliency of a pneuniatic tired wheel without being subjected to the danger of puncture to the said tire, or the necessity of inflating the same.

A further object is to construct a spring wheel which is of a. simple, strong and efli cient nature, and wherein arched spring spokes are employed between the hub and "telly of the wheel, the same having their ends cushioned and being so constructed and arranged that the shock delivered to one of the said spokes will be absorbed by the remainder of the spokes.

A further object is the production of a spring wheel in which comparatively wide and comparatively short arched spring spokes are employed, the same. being connected between the hub and the telly in a novel manner which, however, permits of the removal of" any one ot the spokes without interfering with the remaining spokes, the weight and comparatively short lengths of the springs pern'litting of the employment of comparatively heavy yet sutficiently resilient material to render the device strong so that heavyloads can be carried by the Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

portion of the hub comprises three separable members. A su table boxing may be arranged in the bore 01 the hub for the vehicle axle, if desired.

The circular plate 3 has its periphery formed with a laterally extending annular flange 6 which is o'f a width slightly less than the bosses 2 of the hub. At predetermined equi-distantly spaced intervals on the outer periphery of the flange 6 there are secured transverse cushion blocks 7. The seouring means, constituting boltsS engaged by nuts 9, also serve for connecting the inner ends otthe arched spring spokes 9 to the cushion blocks and to the hubs, The spokes 9 are of a width equalling that of the flange 6 and that of the blocks 7, so that the said spokes. are compzn'atively wide. Also the spokes are comparatively short, and therefore the same may be constructed of some heavy metal of a strength amply suiticient to withstand the strain to which the wheel is subjected. the said metal, however, embodying suflicient-resiliency to perinit of the free yielding ot the spokes. To compensate for the unequal yielding of the spokes, the openings through which the bolts 8 pass through the said spokes are elongated and similar slots might be placed in the outer ends of the spokes 9.

The telly of the wheel is in the nature of a flat ring member 10 that has both its inner and outer edges provided with lateral flanges 11 and 12 respectively. Thus the telly is of a cross sectional I construction. The innor flange 11 is of a width equalling that of the spokes, and has secured on 1ts inner face, at equi-distantly spaced intervals, transversely arranged cushion blocks 13. The securing means for the blocks are in the nature of bolts 14,- which are engaged by view on the line nuts 15, and this means also serves to Fe corner oi the referred to extended portion oi? the rim has an integrally formed amiular head or flange 16 to engage with one of the edges of atread (not shown). The inner and shorter portion oi th'etire carrying rim. is indicated for distinction hy the numeral. l7 and designed to form a part of the lianged r iug in and is adapted toeugugre with the oliposite inner edge of the tread. T he ring 18 is provided, n'eiterahly at equidistant poiutsnith inwardly extending radially directed lug s 1!). lhrough each oi the lugs there passes a bolt 20 that also passes through the ring .10, the outer end ot the said bolts having screwed thereon nuts 21., and whereby the tread engaging ring 155 is, clamped against thetread carrying run 12 or the improwuneut. It is believed that the foregoing eescription 'when taken in connection with the drawings Will-amply set forth the construction and advantages 01": the improvement to those skilled in the art to which such inventions relate without further detailed description. e v Hai ing described the invention, 1 claim 1- 1. In a spring Wheel construction. a huh I having its outer periphery torinedwith an annular flange of a width slightly less than that of the hub proper, equi-distantly spaced cushion blocks disposed transversely on the outer periphery oit'the flange, a telly surrounding the hub and having an inner he rim 12, however, is extended from huh sections flange eqaulling the Width of that of the flange oi the huh, spaced cushion hlocirs the inner periphery of the said flange, r' posed opposite the res-nfmctire blocks on flange ot the hub, arched springs hari their ends loosely connected to the respective opposed blocks, and the connecting means between the hubs and blocks securing the said blocks to the respective flanges. and said spokes being ofa Width equalling that of the flanges. Y

2. The combination in a wheel construetioin including a hub having a central dishllliB plate having its outer periphery provided With a lateral continuous flange, disk ineinhers on the'sides ofthe plate having; central bosses extending outwardly there from and said bosses having bores which align with the central opening in the dish like plate, removable means securing the oi a plurality oi? emu-distantly spaced transversely arranged cushion hlocle-z on the flange oli the huh and of a width equalling that ex? the flange, arched spring spokes"having their inner ends adjustahl} secured to the blocks, and said securing means holding' the hloc'ks on the flange a telly surrounding the hub and spokes, and including atlat ring ineinber that has both its inner and its outer ends provided with laterally extending flanges the inner flange being of a Width corresponding with that of the hub flange, cushion blocks on the inner periphery oii'the last n'ientioned tiau'g e disposed opposite the blocks on the hub flange and receiving thereon the outer ends of therespective spring spokes, means loosely securing the spokes to the blocks and lo'ckir 1 the blocks on thefinner flange or the telly.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature enonen A; Lyrics, 

